Ugh no bar stools. My legs are too short for them and I look like a toddler climbing on and off the sofa when I have to use them. If tall people don't like them either then they are officially no use at all.
About this "mumsnet" thing. "Parenting" site, MNHQ keep saying. But I am always meeting women on here without children. Though sometimes they are interested in children, often they seem to be here just because they want to talk to other women. I also keep meeting men on here, but less often; and where I bump into them they don't seem to talk about their children much, whether or not they are parents (if I even know if they are parents); and you know what, whether they would admit it or not, and whether for positive or negative reasons, they seem to be here mainly because they want to talk to women too. Either they are atrocious trolls who like trying to humiliate and belittle women, and like attention from women; or they are engaging in a more honest and pleasant way but they are enjoying a particular dynamic that you more often get in a group of mainly women and don't get in groups of men, or mixed groups which are de facto dominated in terms of the vibe by having men in them.
So I don't know why we keep carefully told that this is a parenting site. It's modus operandi and USP is about being a women's space. Being named for "mums" it makes women come; and that is what makes it what it is; and while this doesn't mean men shouldn't come I think that it is, ahem, disingenuous, not to recognise what this place is and what job it does.
and you know what? I think the reason why is related to a more general weird squeamishness that MNHQ has about feminism.
Sorry to barge in with all that, I just had it running round in my head for a day and decided to share. Thanks.
I'll have a green tea, please!